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Religious Education Department

 

Head of Department:                             

  • Mrs J Hyndman BD (Hons) PGCE   

Teachers in Department:

  • Mr P Dundee BA (Hons) BD (Hons) PGCTE

  • Miss J McCabe BMus (Hons) PGCE 

  • Miss E Parker BA  (Hons) PGCE

External Examinations:

  • GCSE Religious Studies (Full Course CCEA)

  • GCSE Religious Education (Short Course CCEA)

  • AS & A2 Religious Studies (CCEA)

 

Key Stage 3

The following outline of topics taught in Religious Education form the Northern Ireland Curriculum (formerly the Revised Curriculum).  It is divided into 4 key areas:     

a.  Revelation of God where we study the life of Jesus, the world Jesus lived in,   His teachings, His deeds, the life of Moses and the birth of the Church in Acts.

b.  The Christian Church where we look at  the birth of the Christian Church in Acts, Patrick, Martin Luther, Martin Luther King and William Wilberforce.

 

c.  Christian Morality through topics such as relationships, rights and responsibilities and choices

d.  World Religions where we study the two major monotheistic religions of Judaism and Islam.

               

 

Key Stage 4

Pupils can then opt to follow the Full GCSE Course or the Short Course which is equivalent to a half GCSE.  The new syllabus came online in September 2009 and will be examined in June 2011 for the first time for our Year 12 pupils.  There is NO coursework at all with either the Full or Short Course.
The Short Course pupils will complete one module on Christian Ethics and cover topics such as Crime and Punishment, Abortion and Euthanasia, War and Peace.
The Full Course pupils will complete the above module and a further module on An Introduction to Philosophy.  This will involve topics such as the Existence of God, the Problem of Suffering and Evil and Life and Death.

AS and A2
For any pupil coming from the Short or Full Course with a Grade B or above, AS RS is available.    This involves 2 separate modules taught respectively by two subject specialists.
The Early Christian Church in the Roman Society and its development is taught at AS and A2 level with links made to religion in the modern day.  Topics such as persecution, church government, ordination of homosexual clergy and ordination of women, heresies, Church and State and the Amish are studied. 

 

The other module is Religious Ethics where topics such as the Decalogue, Pauline Ethics, Natural Law, the Sanctity of Life, Abortion and Human Infertility, Surrogacy and Contraception are studied and discussed.

In Year 14 each module paper is longer with an additional section where pupils are examined on a particular synoptic theme.  This allows the material from both modules to be drawn together.  The themes we will be looking at are Suffering and the Relationship between Church and State.

 		  

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